[Sparkle] A Question of Enclosures

[Adam Radestock]

This is purely for the purposes of updating an already-downloaded app;  
although you touch on a point that hasn't been raised yet - Licenses.
I could include support for adding a license to a dmg (which of course  
I cannot do with zip archives), so that the developer could display an  
updated license to the user, if they so wished. Of course, they could  
do this in the app when it runs after the update instead...
Has anyone done this already with a dmg and Sparkle?
Is this something that people would actually want? - It's relatively  
simple to implement.

SparkleCaster currently does not do differential binary patches. I  
know this is mentioned in the original post that Andy made about  
SparkleCaster, but I have not implemented it yet. Is this something  
that a) would be feasible (given the code-signing issues, among  
others), b) developers would actually use?

Adam Radestock
Glass Monkey Software
www.glassmonkey.co.uk

On 5 Apr 2008, at 6:52 pm, David Dunham wrote:

>
> On 4 Apr 2008, at 00:26, Andy Matuschak wrote:
>
>>> string and the appcast URL, package the .app in an internet-enabled
>>> DMG file, and upload that.
>>
>> Yes! Except in a .zip; .dmgs are slow and heavy.
>
>
> Forgive the possibly dumb question, but is this in the context of
> giving something to the user? If so, .dmg is the only way to go. It
> lets you include a click-wrap license, lets you make a pretty
> background, etc.
>
> If it's just an update to an already-downloaded app, then never mind.
> (It makes perfect sense to distribute just the update in a .zip -- the
> original .dmg download includes documentation etc.)
>
> Although I do have another user-related question: if Sparklecaster
> does differential binary patches, how does that work with code  
> signing?
>
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